*What book are you reading ?

[Wide Eyed Angel]

on the road - jack kerouac. finally took the plunge, i'm liking it, very good for long bus journeys

 

[maya]

Oh I see. You're just flicking through it to find the dirty bits.

Just chuck it down the stairs and see where it falls open.

..."dirty bits"?
...which dirty bits?

...erm, have i missed something?
only to page 100 yet, mind...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I've just started Brighton Rock, which seems better so far than the rather pointless last Grahame Greene Book I read, Our Man In Havana.

Best book I've read this summer by a mile though is Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - the best war book I've ever read easily, completely spellbinding stuff. I couldn't put it down during my 30 hour train journey from Kunming back to Wuhan...

 

[astral]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, seems to be taking me a rather long time to get through this one.

 

[Random One]

I'm reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (2nd part too Hitchikers Guide) which is a nice easy read just like the first part

 

[onemonkey]

re-reading random one?
if not i envy you your first time

I'm reading Adventures in the Skin Trade, an unfinished prose piece by Dylan Thomas.. it is much more dated than Under Milk Wood and slightly more obscure than portrait of the artist as a young dog..

 

[Brainaddict]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, seems to be taking me a rather long time to get through this one.

I'm not surprised.
I prefer to refer to it as:
The Unbearable Wankness of Being Milan Kundera

 

[belboid]

Wobblies: A Graphic History

blooming great stuff, tho the last seventy years are a little depressing.

 

[IntoStella]

I'm not surprised.
I prefer to refer to it as:
The Unbearable Wankness of Being Milan Kundera

I couldn't even sit through the film.

 

[Roxy641]

Which books

The current Harry Potter book (third of the way through
it)
1st Farscape book
Various Doctor Who books...

Roxy641

 

[belboid]

I couldn't even sit through the film.

I thought the film had its moments (well, there`s one I can remember )

 

[Kidda]

just about to start the first harry potter book to see what all the fuss is about.

it better be worth it

and it was really liked it.

went out and got the 2nd and 3rd (already have the 4th upstairs for some reason) after work so im just about to start on

Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets: J.K. Rowling

 

[Waterfall]

King Rat by China Mieville.

Picked it up after reading recommendations here and elsewhere. 150 pages in and it's swinging between the sublime and the ridiculous.

 

[Echo Beach]

Continuing this year's John Wyndham fest with The Midwich Cookoos.

 

[Dubversion]

well the Pinckney Benedict novel was a real let-down (after the excellent short stories i'd read ) so i've joined the Norwegian Wood gang.

 

[izz]

Please forgive me for not reading through the entire thread but i would like to add my vote to the doubtless many others for The Lovely Bones.

Most excellent and i heartily recommend it.

 

[Emsy Babe]

I've read lovely bones, really good book!
At the moment im reading Dreamcatcher- Steven King. good book so far.

 

[Boogie Boy]

'Atlas Shrugged' Ayn Rand

I'm going to finish this book even if it kills me!

BB

 

[Dubversion]

ugh - why? horrible right wing shite

 

[Boogie Boy]

ugh - why? horrible right wing shite

I'm just one of those types that has to finish a book once I have started it, and it doesn't help that the text is very very small either. Reading this reminds me of how I felt when reading 'Moby Dick' - which DID get thrown across the room as soon as I had read it.

BB

 

[Throbbing Angel]

this week: Flauberts Parrot
Last week: remains of the day
next week: The Leopard
2 weeks ago: The hour of the star [shite!]

 

[Pickman's model]

John Parker, At the Heart of Darkness: Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today (London: Pan, 1993)

 

[IntoStella]

John Parker, At the Heart of Darkness: Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today (London: Pan, 1993)

What's that one about, then?



I am re-reading Disturbia by Christopher Fowler. I love Christopher Fowler*. But I am definitely going senile. I did it again: bought it in Oxfam (at least I didn't pay full whack) and then realised on page two that I had already read it. Entertaining enough to re-read, though.

*Except Psychoville, which is really rubbish.

 

[IntoStella]

I'm just one of those types that has to finish a book once I have started it, and it doesn't help that the text is very very small either.

I admire your self-discipline, I must say.

 

[Boogie Boy]

I admire your self-discipline, I must say.

Some have called me just plain sad!

BB

 

[Higbo]

Dare to be a Daniel - Tony Benn.

 

[maya]

What's that one about, then?



I am re-reading Disturbia by Christopher Fowler. I love Christopher Fowler*. But I am definitely going senile. I did it again: bought it in Oxfam (at least I didn't pay full whack) and then realised on page two that I had already read it. Entertaining enough to re-read, though.

*Except Psychoville, which is really rubbish.

- i can't get hold of any more of his books up here in ******!
it's a disgrace...!
(perhaps i shall marry a bookseller just to get one? )
(or move to UK just to get more excitement in my life... )

 

[IntoStella]

- i can't get hold of any more of his books up here in ******!
it's a disgrace...!
(perhaps i shall marry a bookseller just to get one? )
(or move to UK just to get more excitement in my life...)

Don't you come over here raiding my bookshelves, you!!

 

[Pickman's model]

i read 'disturbia' in may, following a recommendation. it was interesting and quite well written, but i found a couple of glaring errors - iirc there was some confusion between golders green and muswell hill. and i wasn't particularly impressed by the ending. but there you go...

 

[Belushi]

'A Fine Balance' Rohintan Mistry. Beautifully written and absorbing story of four different lives at the time of the state of emergency in 1970's India.